It's so tempting for him to follow Cougar back upstairs and climb into bed with him, but the kids come thundering down the stairs at that exact moment, and he's sucked into the minutiae of parenthood. Once he gets their lunch boxes in their hands and their backpacks on their backs, he ushers both kids out the door, only remembering when he's at the door to grab a pair of shorts off the clean laundry pile on the cough to cover up so he doesn't cause a scene.
It's only once he's got both kids in their car seats and has put the van in reverse that he realizes that he's wearing a pair of American flag-print board shorts. Cougar will laugh at him when he gets home.
He and the kids scream their way through three of Queen's Greatest Hits on their way to school — it's close to their home, which is great, just about in between them and Julie, which makes pickups easy for everyone involved — and this time Jake does get out of the van when he pulls up to school so the kids can give him one last hug and kiss before they race towards the door. The teacher on door duty grins at him and waves, clearly enjoying his get-up, but if she expects Jake to be embarrassed, she's wrong. He grins back, waving at her and his kids, before loping back towards the van so he can get home in time to wake up Cougar during his self-imposed window of time.
He doesn't break any speed limits getting home, but it's close. By the time he parks and lets himself back in the front door, he's pushing twenty-nine minutes. Taking the stairs three at a time means he manages to get into the bedroom just before the half hour mark.
His hands slide up Cougar's thighs just as thirty minutes tick by, fingers reaching for his waist band.
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It's so tempting for him to follow Cougar back upstairs and climb into bed with him, but the kids come thundering down the stairs at that exact moment, and he's sucked into the minutiae of parenthood. Once he gets their lunch boxes in their hands and their backpacks on their backs, he ushers both kids out the door, only remembering when he's at the door to grab a pair of shorts off the clean laundry pile on the cough to cover up so he doesn't cause a scene.
It's only once he's got both kids in their car seats and has put the van in reverse that he realizes that he's wearing a pair of American flag-print board shorts. Cougar will laugh at him when he gets home.
He and the kids scream their way through three of Queen's Greatest Hits on their way to school — it's close to their home, which is great, just about in between them and Julie, which makes pickups easy for everyone involved — and this time Jake does get out of the van when he pulls up to school so the kids can give him one last hug and kiss before they race towards the door. The teacher on door duty grins at him and waves, clearly enjoying his get-up, but if she expects Jake to be embarrassed, she's wrong. He grins back, waving at her and his kids, before loping back towards the van so he can get home in time to wake up Cougar during his self-imposed window of time.
He doesn't break any speed limits getting home, but it's close. By the time he parks and lets himself back in the front door, he's pushing twenty-nine minutes. Taking the stairs three at a time means he manages to get into the bedroom just before the half hour mark.
His hands slide up Cougar's thighs just as thirty minutes tick by, fingers reaching for his waist band.